COFFS 2 Day Primitive Pottery Course (29-30 November 2026)

In this 2 day hands-on workshop we will explore how to take a chunk of earth and turn it into a vessel that you can cook in or drink out of, and all the steps in between, including:

• How to recognise Clay with Potential in the wild

• Testing wild clays

• Respectfully and responsibly harvesting clay from the wild – who to ask, how much is too much, and when to practice restraint

• Ways of processing clay, wet and dry

• Removing components you don’t want (rocks, leaves etc)

• Adding components you do want (temper, grog)

• Making pots by pinching, coiling, slabbing, paddling

• Drying pots so they don’t crack or explode

• Traditional methods of firing pots

• Cooking in wild clay vessels

• The emergence of clay as a pan-human technology

Participants will be involved in all the stages of harvesting, making and firing and will probably get very dirty along the way!

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Primitive Pottery Course